Ulaanbaatar
21 poets’ creations liven up in 21 photographs
Art & CultureUlaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ On the occasion of the World Poetry Day, observed on March 21, Zokhist Dorno publishing company and the Union of Mongolian Photographers jointly organized an exhibition called “Poems in Photos”.
Exhibit pieces were poems hailing the motherland by 21 famous Mongolian poets such as B.Lkhagvasuren, T.Galsan and D.Uriankhai and 21 distinguished photographers from the Mongolian Photographers’ Union.
Poet Kh.Suglegmaa said: “We are living and authoring our creations in a world where everyone is massively informed and almost everything is digitalized. The most captivating thing about this exhibit is that all pieces are joint efforts of poets and photographers. I have written a poem called “Stone Ger”, which has many words such as ‘toono’ and ‘totgo’ that can only be understood by Mongolians. This poem of mine was translated into English and Chinese. Luckily, a photographer from MONTSAME agency B.Chadraabal took a magnificent photo suited just for the meaning of my poem. The Stone Ger is one of the poems that should possess its place in Mongolian literature, and this piece is a unique phenomenon, as the photo captures the image of the author’s birthplace, the Demchig Monastery in Khanbogd soum of Umnugobi (South Gobi) aimag”.
This exhibition was the first of the annual series of such exhibitions by poets and photographers.
